Candidate & Red Squad

In Los Angeles the "Red Squad" is not a body of Communist storm troops but a group of muscular policemen who go about the city discouraging radical agitation. Last week the Red Squad permitted William Zebulon Foster, Communist candidate for President of the U. S., to utter the first eleven words of a campaign speech to 1,000 partisans assembled on the Plaza. Week prior the police had broken up a Communist meeting, shot one Comrade in the leg.

"We protest against the suppression of free speech in Los Angeles. . . ." began Candidate Foster. The Red Squad closed in. Candidate Foster was knocked down, dragged to jail, locked up on suspicion of violating California's Wartime criminal syndicalism law. His sympathizers were dispersed by Red Squad nightsticks, tear gas.

Next day three of Candidate Foster's sympathizers were still in jail, but the candidate himself, having begun his campaign in the orthodox Communist way with a night in prison, was permitted to depart to begin another campaign speech in Phoenix, Ariz., which has no Red Squad.

Communist candidate for Vice President is James Ford, Alabama Negro. He arrived in Manhattan last week after a comparatively undisturbed campaign swing around New England.

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